Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peterson has "attracted many exceptionally able individuals to work in alumni affairs and development, and helped to lift the level of support to the University to new heights. His loyalty to Harvard and his concern for its welfare have been a constant source of encouragement to me. He has now elected to return to his profession and his native state in a post of major responsibility," the statement read in part...
...fifth part of the package, which Carter called "the centerpiece" of his program, is a tax on crude oil aimed at boosting domestic prices to the world level in order to promote conservation and raise production. This would end the controversial bureaucratic swamp of "entitlements" under which refiners of domestic crude oil subsidize refiners who use more expensive imported oil. No one gives this proposal much chance of passage, however, despite the determination of House leaders to keep on pressing. A new tax, especially one that may raise consumer prices on such a basic commodity, is hardly likely to find...
...interview last week with the Paris-based weekly Afrique-Asie, F.N.L.C. Leader Nathaniel Mbumba said that the Shaba incursion had resulted in an "irreversible situation" and that the rebels were determined to drive President Mobutu from power. The next stage in that effort may be a low-level campaign of harassment that Zaïre's 40,000-man army will find hard to counter. Late last week F.N.L.C. troops made probing attacks on two towns near the Angolan border, about 300 miles from Kinshasa. Surveying the sad ruins of Kolwezi, a Belgian pilot may have put it best...
...consumer price index for April, due out this week, will be a "disaster," warns Barry Bosworth, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS). May's figures will not look much better, he adds, and prices will not start to level out until June at the earliest. Partly because of last winter's blizzards, food prices climbed 16.4% in the first quarter. Beef has jumped at an annual rate of 41 % since January, and wholesale prices are spurting, meaning that retail prices will continue to rise...
...number of colleges and universities rose sharply, as did the number of students attending those institutions. Academic curricula were revised and expanded in order to keep pace with the weight of new knowledge; graduate education came into its own; faculty positions increased and faculty salaries recovered from the depressed level they had remained at during the first half of the 20th century. From the vantage point of the '70s, the years 1945-1970 seem to be a halcyon period. Institutions of higher education assumed a more important role in American soc iety, acquiring new prestige along with increased responsibilities...